Roger Cremers makes lavish use of familiar historical images, such as photos and pictures from old books, magazines, and – more recently – the representation of images in social media, which emphasise our striving towards progress. He is driven by a desire to find ‘mirrors’ of our present time in images from the past. This intuitive process leads him to an eclectic juxtaposition of historical reference and narratives, which interweave both present and past into strangely familiar scenes that are nonetheless out of joint with linear time. His drawings and paintings become abstract landscapes that read almost like a graphic novel. Their contingent relation confront us with the relativity of interpretation and the elusiveness of time. As a romantic, however, Cremers finds that reality presents itself in myths and apparitions, and he adds new ones. The act of thinking creates the forms.
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